A “crash or crash through” approach has served India’s PM well, but India’s farmers are proving a bigger obstacle.
Farmers blocking a Ghazipur highway at the Delhi-Uttar Pradesh state border on 14 December to protest recent agricultural reforms (Jewel Samad/AFP via Getty Images) Published 18 Dec 2020 13:30 0 Comments
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has always been coated in Teflon: the kinds of policies and actions that would have brought down other leaders have barely left a dent in his impeccably tailored vests.
But as it turns out, there is a chink in his armour: farmers. Specifically, 250 million of them, many of whom continue to take part in a weeks-long protest against new laws, passed in September, that would see the agriculture sector potentially opened up to large, private companies, meaning farmers would lose out.
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